Clues for the word "GLOOM"
We've had 53 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 100 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 26, 2026.
Definition of gloom
- n. - Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
- n. - A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
- n. - Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
- n. - In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
- v. i. - To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
- v. i. - To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
- v. t. - To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
- v. t. - To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
Referring Clues
- Despondency
- Opposite of cheer
- Depression
- Murk
- Melancholy
- State of melancholy
- Low spirits
- "... nor ___ of night ..."
- Darkness
- Sad state
- Doom's accompaniment
- Doom partner
- What some prophets deal in
- Depressing darkness
- Murkiness
- Cheer's opposite
- 41-Down's stock-in-trade, often
- Despondent atmosphere
- Dejection
- Moroseness
- "... nor ___ of night..."
- Doom's accompaniment?
- Shadows
- Atmosphere of despondency
- Doom's partner
- Dark mood cause
- Atmosphere of many a Poe story
- Cheerlessness
- Melancholy mood
- Cheerless atmosphere
- What a rain cloud over a head may represent, in comics
- Darkness; depression
- Pallor
- Dusk
- Nothing to amuse us, see, in GS
- Partial darkness
- Dimness
- Near-darkness - misery
- Dark depression?
- Downbeat mood of Gateshead weaver?
- Depression and melancholy
- Depression finally seeming to be ominously close
- Despair at twilight
- Semi-darkness
- Misery in igloo, maybe
- Partial or total darkness
- Partner of doom
- Pessimistic outlook
- Feeling of being under a cloud?
- In poor light, erroneously log an order
- Doom and ___
- Doom's rhyming partner
- Bad outlook
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 26, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 26, 2025
- LA Times - March 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 01, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 22, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 04, 2024
- USA Today - December 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 05, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 29, 2023
- USA Today - November 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 31, 2023
- LA Times - August 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 25, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 04, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - July 22, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - December 08, 2017
- Daily Quick - November 29, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - November 13, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 17, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 14, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - March 08, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - February 12, 2017
- New York Times - December 22, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - December 15, 2016
- And in 70 more crossword puzzles...